SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s largest game publisher NCSOFT Corp. said Friday that the new version of its mobile mega-hit game “Lineage M” will overcome the limitations of its platform. The so-called master server will be adopted for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) starting for the first time in March [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 1 mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said Tuesday it will launch a virtual reality (VR) racing game for 5G smartphones in the first half of this year. SK Telecom said it has signed a licensing agreement with the nation’s leading game developer, Nexon Co., to use [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — NHN Entertainment Corp.’s artificial intelligence (AI) Go program beat the reigning global champion in a match on Wednesday, scoring a complete victory in a series of games against South Korea’s top five players. NHN’s AI player HanDol defeated Shin Jin-seo in the fifth and final match held at the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – NHN Entertainment Corp. said Wednesday it will develop more intriguing Go games based on its artificial intelligence (AI) technology, following its successful match held between its program and South Korea’s top players. The entertainment unit of Naver, South Korea’s largest portal, unveiled the AI development plan as it was [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The value of South Korea’s e-sports industry increased 4.2 percent on-year to 97.3 billion won (US$87 million) in 2017, a government report said Friday. The market size of the nation’s e-sports, which refers to competitive video gaming, has steadily expanded in recent years, increasing from 60.27 billion won in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The founder of South Korea’s major online game publisher Nexon Co. is poised to sell a controlling stake in the firm’s holding company, industry observers said Thursday. Kim Jung-ju is offering a combined 98.64 percent stake worth 6 trillion won (US$5.32 billion) in Nexon’s holding firm NXC Corp. and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s gaming industry is the world’s fourth largest in sales, but none of the local companies rank among the top producers, a report said Tuesday. According to the Korea Creative Content Agency, the industry’s sales in October came to US$5.76 billion. The number ranked fourth behind $34.4 billion [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – It has been reported that if game addiction is classified as a disease, the decrease in sales in the domestic gaming industry will be in the billions of won. Whether game addiction should be classified as a disease under the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) will be discussed at [...]
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) --KT Corp., South Korea’s leading wireless and fixed-line services provider, will launch a virtual reality service on Internet protocol television by the end of the year, its CEO said Wednesday, in a move to boost its presence in the growing business. Hwang Chang-gyu made the announcement in a meeting [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Online gaming giant Nexon Korea Co. launched a labor union on Monday, a first for a game service provider in South Korea. “The establishment of the Nexon union will act as a tow truck to improve labor conditions in the gaming industry as a whole,” the union said in [...]